<p>I only know my D’s case so it may or may not be very helpful.
- The school gives her 16K trustee scholarship + 9K grants from various sources from the school (the 9K is not clear to me, it could be grant, it could be need-based aids but for sure not from the government), total = 25K.</p>
<p>2) She gets 4K outside scholarship for her freshman year and they sent this directly to the school.</p>
<p>Total scholarship+grant for 1st year is $29K or 14.5K for 1st semester.
Tuition+fees+room+board is $39K/ yr or 19.5K for 1st semester</p>
<p>We were asked to pay the school ~5K for the 1st semester.
We are paying for books and other expenses ourselves.</p>
<p>Our EFC is ~20K.</p>
<p>Before semester started, we asked for work-study but were told that none was available to her since our income was not low enough. Yet when she got to school, she got a job on campus. </p>
<p>In our case, it looks like they allow us to stack everything.</p>